Dan Xu, Wenyue Liu, Xinjun Fu

Xinjun Fu

15 Dec. 2022

Chinese and foreign college students, Compliment language, Comparative study.

As a social communication language, compliment speech can not only shorten the social distance between communicators, but also maintain normal social interpersonal relationships. The research on compliments has been quite mature, but most of them are based on traditional pragmatic theories such as rhetoric and stylistics, which have some limitations. This study reviewed the compliments of Chinese and foreign college students in relevant research, found out the differences of the compliments between Chinese and foreign college students, and discussed the reasons for differences and how to cultivate the intercultural communication ability of college students. In addition, based on the review of the perspective of pragmatics for compliment speech behavior and comparisons of compliment speech behavior between Chinese and foreign college students, this study discussed differences between English and Chinese in the syntactic patterns of compliment speech, indicated that it should be appropriate to introduce pragmatics theory knowledge in cross-cultural teaching.

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